Roles on join

Automatic roles

Bao grants the chosen roles as soon as a member joins. Two separate lists:

• Human roles: given to people (25 maximum).
• Bot roles: given to bots that join (25 maximum).

Grant delay

The delay (0 to 3600 seconds) postpones the grant: the role is only applied after N seconds of presence. An account that leaves or is kicked before the delay elapses receives nothing.

It is a simple and effective protection against waves of throwaway accounts: they never get the access they came for.

Sticky roles

Sticky roles give a returning member the roles they had when they left. Without them, someone who leaves the server for five minutes loses their whole role history.

• Empty list: Bao remembers all of the member's roles. An empty list does not mean "no roles".
• Filled list: only those roles are remembered and restored.

Premium roles are always excluded from sticky roles: they depend on a verified subscription, never on a memory.

What Bao refuses

• A role above its own in the hierarchy.
• A role managed by an external integration.
• A role holding dangerous permissions (Administrator, Manage Roles, Manage Server…). A role handed to every arrival cannot be a takeover role.